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Has anyone else come across this yet? My friend just bought this book to show me it. Basically, they've copied and pasted a bunch of Wikipedia articles (Jean Sebastien Gerard, Rob Hubbard, 8 Bit Weapon, David Dineen-Porter, Firebrand Boy, Microchip) and published them.

http://is.gd/dWlDC

Last edited by firebrandboy (Aug 1, 2010 10:24 am)

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firebrandboy wrote:

Basically, they've copied and pasted a bunch of Wikipedia articles

Would that not be classified as plagiarism ?

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Westfield, NJ

Sounds like a waste of paper.

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IL, US

hhahaha 30 pages long? wtf

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Decktonic wrote:

Sounds like a waste of paper.

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nɐ˙ɯoɔ˙ʎǝupʎs

Is this different to http://chipflip.wordpress.com/2010/06/2 … -chiptune/ ?

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Tokyo, Japan

Pretty sure its the same thing. And Unless I am much mistaken, its not plagiarism as wikipedia is

CCBYSA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CCBYSA

So as long they attribute they are fine.

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there are hundreds of those on amazon, as an example

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Adelaide, Australia

But why would anyone pay for it?

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FlashHeart

It's pretty much a scam. They print them as requested. Common occurrence with anything public domain.